Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.

Full, saturated colours have an emotional significance I want to avoid.

Losing as much money as I can get hold of is an instant solution to my economic problems.

A painter's tastes must grow out of what so obsesses him in life that he never has to ask himself what it is suitable for him to do in art.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

The character of the artist doesn't enter into the nature of the art